SCL Awards: Music From ‘Oppenheimer’ & ‘Barbie’ Among Society Of Composers & Lyricists Winners

Oppenheimer‘s Ludwig Göransson won the marquee film prize at the Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards, which were handed out Tuesday night in Los Angeles. The Black Panther Academy Award winner took Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film and also is nominated for the Original Score Oscar next month.

Hitmakers Billie Eilish & Finneas and Olivia Rodrigo scooped Original Song statuettes for their respective tunes from Barbie and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The Barbie track won Song of the Year at the Grammys this month and a Golden Globe in January and is up for Best Song at the 96th Oscars on March 10.

Still: A Michael J. Fox composer John Powell won Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film.

The TV prizes went to Nicholas Britell for Succession and Carlos Rafael Rivera for Lessons in Chemistry.

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The SCL also presented its Spirit of Collaboration Award to Martin Scorsese and the late Robbie Robertson, who worked on 14 films together include current Best Picture and Original Score Oscar nominee Killers of the Flower Moon. Their pics stretch back to The Last Waltz, the revered 1976 concert movie that chronicled The Band’s final show, along Raging Bull, Shutter Island, The Wolf of  Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman, Gangs of New York, Casino, The King of Comedy and others.

The Spirit of Collaboration Award recognizes a composer/director relationship that has created a prodigious body of work. 

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Grammy winner and two-time Oscar nominee Siedah Garrett hosted the ceremony from at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Here are the winners of the 2024 SCL Awards:

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

Ludwig Göransson                

Oppenheimer                                             

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM 

John Powell                           

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie                            

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA OR DOCUMENTARY

Olivia Rodrigo/Dan Nigro, “Can’t Catch Me Now”

From The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL:

Billie Eilish O’Connell/Finneas O’Connell, “What Was I Made For?”

From Barbie

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION

Nicholas Britell                     

Succession

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION

Carlos Rafael Rivera             

Lessons in Chemistry

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab              

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor                                        

THE DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT

Catherine Joy                         

Home Is a Hotel

THE SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD     

Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese